The municipality hereby grants to the company
the nonexclusive right to construct, erect, operate and maintain a
cable television system within the municipality as it now exists and
may hereafter be changed and, in so doing, to use the streets of the
municipality by erecting, installing, constructing, repairing, replacing,
reconstructing, maintaining and retaining in, on, under, upon and
across any and all said streets such poles, wires, cables, conductors,
ducts, conduits, vaults, manholes, amplifiers, appliances, attachments
and other property as is deemed necessary or useful by the company,
subject to the company's obligation to provide efficient cable television
service and to the reasonable exercise of municipal police powers,
as provided below, in the operations of the cable television system.
Additionally, the municipality hereby grants to the company the right
to use any and all easements granted for or dedicated to compatible
uses, such as electric, gas, telephone or other utility transmissions,
for the purposes of erecting, installing, constructing, repairing,
replacing, reconstructing, maintaining and retaining in, on, over,
under, upon and across such easements such items of the cable television
system as are deemed necessary or useful by the company in order to
provide cable television service, including any other associated communications
services. Upon request by Cablevision, the municipality hereby agrees
to assist the company in gaining access to and using said easements.
Pursuant to any applicable procedures stated
in Section 626 of the Cable Policy Act, the board of the municipality,
after affording the public adequate notice and opportunity for comment
and having determined that the company is likely to satisfy cable-related
community needs, hereby grants this franchise renewal. The board,
in public proceeding affording due process, considered and approved
the company's technical ability, financial condition and character
and, in proceedings complying with the requirements of due process,
has found to be adequate and feasible the company's plans for constructing
and operating the cable television system. In making said determination,
the board considered the company's past performance and its likelihood
of satisfactory future performance and other factors the board deemed
necessary for the selection of the company as the cable television
franchisee.
The company hereby agrees that, when and wherever
possible, it shall enter into agreements with telephone or electric
or other utilities for the use of said utilities' poles, whereby said
utilities shall provide use of and access to said poles to the company
of the company's lines and other equipment. Notwithstanding the above,
where necessary to service subscribers and where the company demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the municipality that attachment to the pole(s)
of utilities is not economically reasonable or otherwise possible,
the company may erect or authorize or permit others to erect any poles
or any other facilities within the streets of the municipality pursuant
to the issuance by the municipality of any necessary authorizations
which shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The company shall render efficient service,
make repairs promptly and interrupt service only for good cause and
for the shortest possible time. The company shall maintain an office
and list a local or toll-free telephone number. The telephone shall
be so operated that complaints or requests for repairs because of
malfunctions of the cable television system shall be repaired as quickly
as possible after notice of such malfunction. The company shall make
its best efforts to remedy said malfunctions no later than 24 hours
after notice of the malfunction, except or unless such malfunction
shall affect a substantial portion of the company's cable television
system or the malfunction shall have been caused by storm, fire, lighting,
explosion, major equipment or computer failure, civil commotion or
other similar catastrophe which is beyond the reasonable control of
the company, in which case all due diligence to repair the problem
as quickly as possible will be undertaken by the company.
If any provision of this franchise renewal agreement
shall be held invalid, void, unenforceable or illegal by a court or
a regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions
of such franchise renewal shall remain in full force and effect.
All notices required or permitted herein shall
be in writing and shall be deemed delivered when mailed in the United
States mail, postage prepaid and sent certified, return receipt requested,
or on the date of delivery when sent by express mail, and in other
cases when addressed to:
A. Cablevision Industries, Inc., Office of the President,
P.O. Box 311, Liberty, New York 12754.
B. When to the municipality: Borough Hall, Borough of
Sayre.